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Laser cut Prometheus Fusion Perfection stencil.
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Spent copper conflat gasket used in a working Fusor reactor.
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Laser engraved copper conflat gasket. "Funded the Open Source Bussard Reactor"
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3D printed object (see http://www.thingiverse.com/tag:makerbot for choices)
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Max Steiner original cinder block necklace.
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Fusor grid necklace from jewelry designer Max Steiner. http://www.maxsteinerdesign.com/about.html
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Stainless steel model of the prototype superconducting magrid.
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Spend a day in the lab with the Prometheus Fusion team. Get a chance to operate a Fusor! (Travel and Boarding not included)
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Factory refurbished Glassman -10,000 volt 2 milli-amp power supply. This power supply is in perfect working condition and is suitable for use in a Fusor. Must be 18 or older for this item.
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Working 60 Watt Burning Laser with high power laser safety glasses. Must be 18 or older for this item.
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Congratulations on getting the magnet to behave. Amazing how hard it is to make practice look like theroy sometimes.
A few questions about the laser: What model / wavelength, and does it come with a power supply and cooling system?
I hope to see this project ready for the market really soon. I am very interested in seeing it work in my country once commercial.
Very inteesting use of not only funding but using a fan base to receive input
Just came across your efforts, cool cool cool, even tho you've got your $3K I had to join just to be a part of this. Good luck and make us all proud!!!
Thanks Paul!
Falamus, it has been more interesting and gratifying watching you build and fire up your fusor than reading any number of armchair blog/forum posting nay sayers. I hope you succeed. I've got my $20 worth already.
I have some physicist friends. I have made sure they are kept aware of this project. In addition my friend Tom Ligon - an engineer who worked with Dr. Busssard is kept up to date.
What excites me is that the first known superconducting Polywell is likely to be done by an amateur.
I'm a semiretired aerospace Black Box engineer. I comment on Famulus' electrical work from time to time. Which reminds me: Famulus - have you considered an electrical delay line to lengthen the power pulses to the coil?
Hey Carl,
I do not "have" a physicist. However, honest to goodness physicists follow and comment on the blog.
Hi, I'm very interested in your goal. But do you have a physicist? Someone who understands Fusion? Dr. Bussard said in his GoogleTalk (iirc) that the solution required a secret sauce of experience that he had gleaned from his efforts. I understand from your blog that your method is trial-and-error, but can the needed intuition be gleaned from trial-and-error by someone without training as a physicist? Thank you for tacking this monumental problem!
THIS is a very cool project.
I'm hopefully going to be able to help, Good luck Guys!